Having carried out MOT's for many years the small 1.1, 1.3 petrol engined cars and cars doing only low mileages were the highest fail rate on emmission test. Town diesels almost impossible to get through, spent more time cleaning and recalibrating smoke tester than test took.
From a different view small engined petrol (except the very latest) cars cruising at 75mph on motorway would be lucky to get 35-40 mpg, even less into a wind.
10my FL2 Auto averaged 42mpg on these runs. Not had a good long run in SD yet.

But you will never educate the goody goody greens!!!!! All FL2's (3) Gone
2011 Mercedes C180 CGI Gone
FL2 GS Auto SD with heated leather, factory tints, alloy spare and a few other bits.

Eco Stuff has its own thread now

http://www.freel2.com/forum/post91927.html#91927 Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

Sorry, it took me so long to write, you moved it.
Please delete

Gas guzzler my ar*e

Cruise set to 60mph on M1 to junction 28 a distance of 35 miles and returned 48mpg what a car

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weirdfish wrote:

Oh yeah, and what did they load their throw away plastic bags full of shopping into? A planet friendly mirage that is the Prius? No, it was a V6 Vauxhall Senator

Ah thats why, they must be from a council estate then, living on benefits so you are actually paying for his V6, and I bet their son has a Subaru Impreza with a 6" exhaust on that can be heard on Mars with a 300amp stereo that only works with the windows down  I was only wrong once and thats when I thought I was but wasnt.

2010 Freelander 2 XS Stornaway Grey
2010 Aston DBS Morning Frost
2010 Bentley Continental Brooklands Green

I heard that the environmental impact of a large dog is greater than that of a Toyota Landcruiser - because of its meat diet. So next time you see a man with a ponytail walking his dog, wind down your window and say "hello, it's good to meet someone else who doesn't care about the environment".

And as for the environmental impact of children....comparisons with cars come nowhere near it. We are probably talking HGVs and large ones at that. So when you see him again with his kids and his dog, you can wind down your window and say "hello, it's you again. Remember me. You really don't care one bit about your impact on the environment do you". Then foot to the floor and get he hell out of it.

Mankind is doomed. There are too many of us. But rather than going to hell in a handcart, let's go in style in a TD4 HSE.

like that last coment the oil wont last for ever but some bright spark will invent the alternative fuel, if those tree huggers want make a difference then go live with those people who fature in the human planet program and stop driving around in a clapped out emissions failure car They me off as most cant see the sience behind the consevation concept and just jump on the band wagon (cant be doing with the tree huggers)